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The solution

In response to the problem of media influencing opinions on women, I have three solutions.
The first is to realize that the problem doesn't affect everyone. There are many people who have different opinions on women, and the documentary presented the extremes, rather than reality.  While this is a problem, we must know to see it when it is actually present, not just when we are told it is there.
This brings me to my next solution, to be able to questions everything you hear or learn.  While there is a limit, we must realize that we can and should try to question information that we are given or at least learn more about the issue.  We shouldn't just take the facts that we are given, but learn to question it and process the information rather than just follow it.  We must be able to accept and reject information after we have actually had time to learn about it.  We shouldn't listen to what a small percentage of people say, simply because they are in charge of a news show or something.
My final point is that we must form our own opinions. We can listen to what others have to say, but we should use the facts we learn to come up with our own ideas.  If we learn and educate ourselves, we can solve all these problems.  Not only will we be able to do the right thing, especially in this case, but we will have thousands of different ideas when it comes to something new and what the best thing to do is.  We must be able to form our own ideas, and not allow for others to form them for us.

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  1. UnknownMay 29, 2017 at 9:35 AM

    Hi Tristan

    I found your conclusion of the film very innovative. When I watched the film I had a sense of bias that the director presented, however the slight bias and dramatization of the issues were subtle and its hard to see the issue when someone doesn't point it out. I would agree that having our own perception and opinion on the issue is important as it allows for more of an individual solution.

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  2. UnknownMay 31, 2017 at 6:18 PM

    Your solution to the problem presented in the documentary very interesting. You are looking at this from the point that the problems they presented is in fact true. Now I am not denying that we have a problem with the miss representation of women, but I am saying that the problem they addressed may be the wrong problem to address. They are making the argument that it is the media's fault for the problems and discrimination women face. What if that was not the case? What if we said that the problem here is that people in charge, sending those ideas through the media, are the problem. Then your solution does not solve the problem; it just ignores the problem. I think we should not only look at the problem and its solution, we should look at the problem and it causes.

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